Professor of European History at De Montfort University.Room: CL 1.05Telephone: 0116 207 8681Email: [email protected]

Fish 'n' chips was a dish brought to British shores by French immigrants, new research suggests. Rather than being the celebrated, quintessential British dish of old, it turns out the meal may be a mixture of French and Jewish dishes. The news will not go down well with Britons who assumed the food was all theirs. Professor Panikos Panayi, of Leicester's De Montfort University, made the claim after beginning a £6,000 research project to investigate the global influence on British palates. He said the meal began 150 years ago with the introduction of frites by French immigrants and fish by the Jewish.

Baroness Patricia Janet Scotland was born in 1955 and was raised to the peerage as Baroness Scotland, of Asthal, of Asthal in the County of Oxfordshire in 1997.

She was educated at London University, where she earned an LLB and is married to Richard Mawhinney [the brother of former Tory party chairman Brian Mawhinney] with two sons. Her career accomplishments include being a member of the Antigua Bar and within the House of Lords, she is the Parliamentary Secretary in the Lord Chancellor's Department.

Baroness Scotland is also a government spokesperson on Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Law Officers, and is a former member of the Commission for Racial Equality.

She is an honorary fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge and Cardiff University.
Contact Details

Of all the many enemies of the British people the ones that make me most angry are those who make a living by promoting immigration from the third-world while sucking at the public teat.

The prime example of this is of the CRE, several of whose leading lights are profiled above. There are many others who operate in the shadowy and lucrative demi-monde of the immigration industry and I’d request SFers post full details here of any particularly egregious examples.

Among the more noteworthy of these despicable trough-wallowers is Sarah Spencer.

Sarah Spencer

Before landing feet-first in her latest boondoggle as Senior Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at Oxford University, Spencer was at the IPPR, and had this quote published in October 2003:

“Migration will be a permanent part of Europe’s future. The question is not if we shall have migrants but how we maximise the opportunities and minimise the costs. Governments need to build consensus. ..”

In addition to the current taxpayer-funded sinecure at Oxford, Spencer still collects a few extra bob as Deputy “Chair” at the CRE, Trev’s right-hand man as it were. Her impeccable right-on credentials also include “chairing” the Equality and Diversity Forum and she manages to hold down yet another gig as visiting professor at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex.

If there’s one thing worse than home-grown traitors who conspire and scheme to wreck Britain through their support for continued mass immigration and multiculturalism (and make a healthy living doing so), it is foreign-born know-it-alls who take advantage of British tolerance and generosity to lecture us on our ‘racist and xenophobic’ tendencies.

One particularly irritating example of the latter is Zrinka Bralo, a one-time asylum seeker from Bosnia.

Zrinka Bralo

After ten years in Britain, Bralo shows no sign of returning home. She evidently feels that her self-anointed status as a ‘refugee activist’ provides license to continue to abuse the generosity of the British people with her witless harangues about how beastly they are to immigrants. It’s not enough that the long-suffering public has to endure these insults, it is subsidising its own humiliation through Quangos like the Refugee Council, the lottery-funded NCADC, and the LSE – all of whom have funded Bralo’s inanities in one way another.

Anyone remember a dirty filthy long-haired South african twerp who was nabbed for conspiring to throw broken glass over a Rugby Pitch in the UK a few decades back - to try to maim British and South African sportsmen in an outburst of left-wing Afro-philia . His name?: Peter Hain now allegedly "representing" the entire British people as a senior reptile in the festering shambles calling itself New Labour .

Next on our radar is Dr. Steven “Steve” Vertovec, an academic of doubtful provenance and unknown ethnicity, although understood likely to have American nationality.

Steven Vertovec

Steve’s current gig is as Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Bit of a challenge you might think, but wait there’s even more.

Steve has developed a kind of speciality indeed almost a complete career in seeking answers to the eternal conumdrum “Why do Pakis leave home?” Not only that but he’s managed to perfect a very lucrative schtick for wheedling grants out of the government-funded Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) to pursue such lines of inquiry.

So far he has tapped the ESRC for around £5.6 million although to be fair there has been a decent return – there are no less than 44 records in the ESRC’s database against his name. The UK taxpayer will I’m sure be delighted to learn that their investment in Steve has paid-off in terms of much needed and ground-breaking research into areas such as:

“Caught in an ethnic quandary : Indo-Caribbean Hindus in London”

“Hindus in Trinidad and Britain : ethnic religion, reification and the politics of public space”

“"Official" and "popular" Hinduism in the Caribbean : historical and contemporary trends in Surinam, Trinidad and Guyana”

and, of course
“Berlin multikulti : towards 'world-openness'”

The latest wheeze is the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), funded by the ESRC to the tune of £3.8 million. Steve is joined in this new venture by old industry pals such as Sarah Spencer (see above), and will no doubt be relying heavily on his 'Advisory' Board which includes such stalwarts as Prof. Bihkhu Parekh, late of the Runnymede Trust.

It is however a little hard to see having partisans like Spencer and Parekh on the team is going to help Steve ensure that, as noted in the official Oxford Univerity press release, “... COMPAS will need to tread a careful, independent path [between] government departments, on the one hand, and community groups and NGOs, on the other.”,